Radical Ventures Aims to Entice AI Founders With Classes, GPUs

Venture capital firm Radical Ventures is seeking artificial intelligence researchers who might want to start their own company, offering more than a dozen “founder-curious” academics and tech workers about $250,000 in compute credits to try out new ideas.

The program, which will give away about $4 million, is part of a larger effort by Radical Ventures to entice more academics and tech workers to try their hand at startups in the booming AI industry.

Launched in 2017, the Toronto-based firm has $1.8 billion under management and unusually close ties to AI luminaries — with investors including AI pioneers Fei-Fei Li ...